Le Chaton Rouge

FIRE OF AWAKENING  (date to be confirmed)

Emerge from the coldness and dullness of the winter months, shed your skin and feel lighter, brighter and clear around your intentions for the year ahead. This intimate four-day retreat will wrap around the element of fire, using its purifying heat to scorch off what may be weighing you down, and fill you with the warmth of the sun before it fully arrives, the energy for a new beginning.

Nestled amongst the vineyards of the northern Loire Valley as the vines begin to bud, each day will be opened and closed around the antique iron brazier in the garden, letting what we no longer wish to hold onto fall into the flames. We'll work with Tantric Hatha yoga and breathwork practices designed to build up fresh energy reserves, especially focusing on opening out around the heart and lungs, creating more space to breathe in fully - to take more of life in - and boosting both circulation and immunity. Revitalize, expand, become radiant. 

Our mornings will unfold around a 90-minute practice either in the cosy yoga studio or on the yoga deck in the garden, the birds singing as the sun rises behind the house. Then we'll settle into stillness each evening with a 90-minute Yin yoga practice that will release blockages at much deeper layers of our energetic and emotional bodies and create space for what is next, with the option of a calming, grounding meditation before bed.

All nourishing vegetarian meals will be seasonal and locally sourced, with many of the ingredients grown in Le Chaton Rouge's kitchen garden or harvested from the woods nearby. There will be downtime during the retreat with optional activities available between yoga classes, such as wine tasting, horse riding or bike riding through the Berce forest.